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Pascha Typology

Thus if you wish to see the mystery of the Lord

look at Abel who is likewise slain,

at Isaac who is likewise tied up,

at Joseph who is likewise traded,

at Moses who is likewise exposed,

at David who is likewise hunted down,

at the prophets who likewise suffer for the sake of Christ.

And look at the sheep, slaughtered in the land of Egypt,

which saved Israel through its blood whilst Egypt was struck down.

The Mystery of the Lord is proclaimed through the prophetic voice.

For Moses says to the people:

“And you shall look upon your life hanging before your eyes night and day, and you will not have faith in your life.”

David says:

“Why have the nations been haughty, and the peoples imagined vain things?

The kings of the earth stood by and the rulers gathered themselves together

against the Lord and against his anointed one.”

Jeremiah says:

“I am like a harmless lamb led to sacrifice;

they planned evil for me saying: come let us put wood on his bread and let us rub him out from the land of the living; and his name shall not be remembered.”

Isaiah says:

“Like a sheep he was led to slaughter and like a silent lamb before its shearer he does not open his mouth; who shall tell of his generation?"

Many other things were proclaimed by many prophets concerning the mystery of the Pascha, who is Christ,

to whom be the glory for ever.

Amen.